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Form and Forces

Author : Edward Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-01-09
ISBN 10 : 9781118174258
Pages : 640 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (118 users)

Download Form and Forces PDF Full or another Format written by Edward Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics. This unique text teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including selection of suitable materials, finding a suitable configuration, finding forces and size members, designing appropriate connections, and proposing a feasible method of erection. Chapters are centered on the design of a whole structure, from conception through construction planning.


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Footbridges

Author : Ursula Baus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-11-05
ISBN 10 : 9783764381394
Pages : 255 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (764 users)

Download Footbridges PDF Full or another Format written by Ursula Baus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges have become a focus of increased attention and awareness in the last ten years as highly visible elements that define the urban and nonurban landscape. This book contains detailed presentations of some sixty-five bridges from ten European countries, with text, comprehensive and detail plans, and photographs taken especially for the volume.


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Wild Buildings and Bridges

Author : Etta Kaner
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Release Date : 2018-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9781525301599
Pages : 40 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (525 users)

Download Wild Buildings and Bridges PDF Full or another Format written by Etta Kaner and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising ways nature has influenced architecture. It may come as a surprise to learn that architects have found solutions to all kinds of design challenges in nature! Some have looked to nature to solve a structural problem, like creating an earthquake-proof bridge by mimicking the extremely long roots of a special type of grass. Others have turned to nature for artistic inspiration, designing buildings and bridges that evoke the movement of swimming fish or a bird in flight. When it comes to style and structure, nature and architecture make perfect partners! From cactuses to birds’ wings, termite towers to honeycombs, inspiration for ingenious design is everywhere around us!


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Arch Bridges

Author : A. Sinopoli
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9058090124
Pages : 458 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (9 users)

Download Arch Bridges PDF Full or another Format written by A. Sinopoli and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern structural engineering surprises us with the mastery and certainty with which it plans and carries out daring projects, such as the most recent metal or concrete bridges, whether they be suspension or arch bridges. On the other hand, little is yet known about the state of knowledge of construction science and techniques which, well before the arrival of modern methods based on the mechanics of deformable continua, made it possible in the past to erect the vaulted masonry structures rthat we have inherited. The fact that these have lasted through many centuries to our time, and are still in a fairly good state of conservation, makes them competitive, as far as stability and durability are concerned, with those constructed in other materials. Although it is known that the equilibrium of the arch is guaranteed by any funicular whatsoever of the loads, contained inside the profile of an arch, finding the unique solution is not such a certainty. In other words, the problem of the equilibrium of vaulted structures is 'Poleni's problem', the one for which the Venetian scientist was able to give an exemplary solution on the occasion of the assessment of the dome of St. Peter's. Arch Bridges focuses on the main aspects of the debate about the masonry arch bridge: History of structural mechanics and construction, theoretical models, analysis for assessment, numerical methods, experimental and non-destructive testing, maintenance and repair are the topics of the Conference. The breadth and variety of the contributions presented and discussed by leading experts from many countries make this volume an authoritative source of up-to-date information.


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Moral Rights

Author : Mira T. Sundara Rajan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-02
ISBN 10 : 9780199749973
Pages : 572 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (199 users)

Download Moral Rights PDF Full or another Format written by Mira T. Sundara Rajan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of moral rights is based on the idea that authors have a special bond with their own creative work. At present, the legal status of moral rights demands clarification and assessment as never before, particularly as the international expansion of moral rights occurs in the new environment of digital technology. Just as the survival of copyright law depends on its capacity to adapt effectively to the new technological environment, a new approach to moral rights is imperative. Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology is the first work to comprehensively address the role and challenges of moral rights in an environment of digital technology The problem is addressed from both practical and theoretical channels, and examples drawn from the legislation and practice of key jurisdictions around the world. The book concludes with a consideration of how the concept of moral rights can contribute to the re-organization of copyright law in a digital context.


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Bridge

Author : Peter Bishop
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 1861893469
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (893 users)

Download Bridge PDF Full or another Format written by Peter Bishop and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of the role of bridges in the advancement of human culture.


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Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability

Author : Joan Ramon Casas
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2022-06-26
ISBN 10 : 9781000798777
Pages : 5491 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 ( users)

Download Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability PDF Full or another Format written by Joan Ramon Casas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-06-26 with total page 5491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability contains lectures and papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2022, Barcelona, Spain, 11–15 July, 2022). This e-book contains the full papers of 322 contributions presented at IABMAS 2022, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 4 Keynote Lectures, and 317 technical papers from 36 countries all around the world. The contributions deal with the state-of-the-art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of safety, maintenance, management, life-cycle, resilience, sustainability and technological innovations of bridges. Major topics include: advanced bridge design, construction and maintenance approaches, safety, reliability and risk evaluation, life-cycle management, life-cycle, resilience, sustainability, standardization, analytical models, bridge management systems, service life prediction, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and field testing, robustness and redundancy, durability enhancement, repair and rehabilitation, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, needs of bridge owners, whole life costing and investment for the future, financial planning and application of information and computer technology, big data analysis and artificial intelligence for bridges, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions on bridge safety, maintenance, management, life-cycle, resilience and sustainability of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The volume serves as a valuable reference to all concerned with and/or involved in bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of bridge engineering.


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Bridges

Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-07
ISBN 10 : 9780316473804
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (316 users)

Download Bridges PDF Full or another Format written by Judith Dupré and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupréomes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring, and artistic vision have propelled the evolution of bridge design around the world. This visual history of the world's landmark bridges has been thoroughly revised andupdated since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, and now showcases well-known classics as well as modern innovators. Bridges featured include: The Brooklyn Bridge (New York) Dany and-Kunshan Grand Bridge (China) Gateshead Millennium Bridge (England) The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) Zakim Bridge (Boston) Including all-new photographs and the latest cutting edgework from today's international superstars of architecture and engineering, Bridges covers two-thousand years of technological and aesthetic triumphs, making it the most thorough, authoritative, and gorgeous book on the subject-as dramatic in presentation as the structures it celebrates. Breathtaking photographs capture the bridges' details as well as their monumental scale; architectural drawings and plans invite you behind the scenes as new bridges take shape; and lively commentary on each structure explores its importance and places it in historical context. Throughout, informative profiles, features, and statistics make Bridges an invaluable reference as well as a visual feast.


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An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges

Author : David McFetrich
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Release Date : 2022-04-30
ISBN 10 : 9781526794499
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (526 users)

Download An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges PDF Full or another Format written by David McFetrich and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword 2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200 bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual characteristics in their design, usage and history.


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Pushing the Limits

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
ISBN 10 : 9780307427366
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (37 users)

Download Pushing the Limits PDF Full or another Format written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.


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Preliminary Design of Bridges for Architects and Engineers

Author : Michele Melaragno
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2021-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781000110173
Pages : 552 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 ( users)

Download Preliminary Design of Bridges for Architects and Engineers PDF Full or another Format written by Michele Melaragno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the conceptual and preliminary stages in bridge design, this book addresses the new conceptual criteria employed when evaluating project proposals, considering elements from architectural aspects and structural aesthetics to environmental compatibility.;College or university bookstores may order five or more copies at a special student price. Price is available on request.


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Santiago Calatrava

Author : Cheryl Kent
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2005-07-26
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015060875674
Pages : 136 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

Download Santiago Calatrava PDF Full or another Format written by Cheryl Kent and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. While his most recent success was the much-lauded (and much-televised) stadium, velodrome, and other structures of the Athens Olympics, Calatrava first established his reputation as the preeminent engineer of our time with a stunning series of bridges designed for cities around the globe―Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Orléans, Seville, Venice, and Jerusalem. Recent years have witnessed the introduction of Calatrava’s elegant forms to the American cityscape with designs for an innovative apartment tower and the much-anticipated World Trade Center Transportation Hub, both planned for lower Manhattan. But before these designs were unveiled, Calatrava completed the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, which Time named the best new design project of 2001. This beautifully illustrated monograph is a detailed exploration of a celebrated American architectural masterpiece. Calatrava’s spectacular cultural and civic projects have secured his place in the pantheon of world-class twenty-first-century architects. In addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, he’s celebrated for train stations in Zurich, Lyons, Lisbon, and Liège; the Sondica Airport in Bilbao; the Tenerife Concert Hall in the Spanish Canary Islands; and the Valencia Science Museum, Planetarium, and Opera House.


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Capturing Venice: Churches and bridges of Venice

Author : James Dugan
Publisher : Walkabout photo guides
Release Date : 2019-09-04
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 64 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)

Download Capturing Venice: Churches and bridges of Venice PDF Full or another Format written by James Dugan and published by Walkabout photo guides. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning a trip to Venice? Want to know how to capture great photos of the iconic churches and bridges in Venice? Our travel photography guides are focused on the information you need. Inside, you’ll find: - Detailed maps and diagrams - Photos, including the DSLR camera settings and the exact location where the photo was taken - Logistical information to ensure that you’re at the right place at the right time - Ways to get the photo whilst avoiding the crowds This sub-guide is part of a bigger travel photography guide that covers all of Venice. Inside you'll find lots of specific tips for planning and the logistics of getting great photos of the churches and bridges of Venice. Our guides help you save valuable time in researching and planning, allowing you to focus on your photos.


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Bridge Design

Author : António J. Reis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781118927649
Pages : 552 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (118 users)

Download Bridge Design PDF Full or another Format written by António J. Reis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to bridge design Bridge Design - Concepts and Analysis provides a unique approach, combining the fundamentals of concept design and structural analysis of bridges in a single volume. The book discusses design solutions from the authors’ practical experience and provides insights into conceptual design with concrete, steel or composite bridge solutions as alternatives. Key features: Principal design concepts and analysis are dealt with in a unified approach. Execution methods and evolution of the static scheme during construction are dealt with for steel, concrete and composite bridges. Aesthetics and environmental integration of bridges are considered as an issue for concept design. Bridge analysis, including modelling and detail design aspects, is discussed for different bridge typologies and structural materials. Specific design verification aspects are discussed on the basis of present design rules in Eurocodes. The book is an invaluable guide for postgraduate students studying bridge design, bridge designers and structural engineers.


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Noise Orders

Author : David Brown
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 9780816643516
Pages : 193 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (816 users)

Download Noise Orders PDF Full or another Format written by David Brown and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively book, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz. Improvised music consists of diverse properties that fail to register in the object-oriented understanding of composition. As a result, it is often dismissed as noise—an interfering signal. However, Brown asserts, such interference can bear meaning and stimulate change. Noise Orders identifies how architecture can respond to the inclusive dynamics of extemporaneous movements, variable conceptions of composition, multiple durations, and wide manipulation of resources found in jazz to enable outcomes that far exceed a design’s seeming potential. By exploring overlapping moments between modernism and the cultural dimensions of jazz, Noise Orders suggests that the discipline of improvisation continues to open and redefine architectural theory and practice, creating a world where designers contribute to emerging environments rather than make predetermined ones. Comparing modern and avant-garde artists and architects with individuals and groups in jazz—including Piet Mondrian and boogie-woogie, John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Le Corbusier and Louis Armstrong, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)—Brown examines how jazz can offer alternative design ideas and directions, be incorporated in contemporary architectural practices, and provide insight on how to develop dynamic metropolitan environments. Interdisciplinary in its approach, innovative in its methodology, and unexpected in its conclusions, Noise Orders argues for a deeper understanding of the infinite potential inherent in both music and architecture. David P. Brown is associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


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Quarterly Bulletin

Author : Philippines. Bureau of Public Works
Publisher :
Release Date : 1917
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105117747654
Pages : 830 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)

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The Manual of Bridge Engineering

Author : M. J. Ryall
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 0727727745
Pages : 1046 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (727 users)

Download The Manual of Bridge Engineering PDF Full or another Format written by M. J. Ryall and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Bridge type, behaviour and appearance David Bennett, David Bennett Associates · History of bridge development · Bridge form · Behaviour - Loads and load distribution Mike Ryall, University of Surrey · Brief history of loading specifications · Current code specification · Load distribution concepts · Influence lines - Analysis Professor R Narayanan, Consulting Engineer · Simple beam analysis · Distribution co-efficients · Grillage method · Finite elements · Box girder analysis: steel and concrete · Dynamics - Design of reinforced concrete bridges Dr Paul Jackson, Gifford and Partners · Right slab · Skew slab · Beam and slab · Box - Design of prestressed concrete bridges Nigel Hewson, Hyder Consulting · Pretensioned beams · Beam and slab · Pseduo slab · Post tensioned concrete beams · Box girders - Design of steel bridges Gerry Parke and John Harding, University of Surrey · Plate girders · Box girders · Orthotropic plates · Trusses - Design of composite bridges David Collings, Robert Benaim and Associates · Steel beam and concrete · Steel box and concrete · Timber and concrete - Design of arch bridges Professor Clive Melbourne, University of Salford · Analysis · Masonry · Concrete · Steel · Timber - Seismic analysis of design Professor Elnashai, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine · Modes of failure in previous earthquakes · Conceptual design issues · Brief review of seismic design codes - Cable stayed bridges - Daniel Farquhar, Mott Macdonald · Analysis · Design · Construction - Suspension bridges Vardaman Jones and John Howells, High Point Rendel · Analysis · Design · Construction - Moving bridges Charles Birnstiel, Consulting engineer · History · Types · Special problems - Substructures Peter Lindsell, Peter Lindsell and Associates · Abutments · Piers - Other structural elements Robert Broome et al, WS Atkins · Parapets · Bearings · Expansion joints - Protection Mike Mulheren, University of Surrey · Drainage · Waterproofing · Protective coating/systems for concrete · Painting system for steel · Weathering steel · Scour protection · Impact protection - Management systems and strategies Perrie Vassie, Transport Research Laboratory · Inspection · Assessment · Testing · Rate of deterioration · Optimal maintenance programme · Prioritisation · Whole life costing · Risk analysis - Inspection, monitoring, and assessment Charles Abdunur, Laboratoire Central Des Ponts et Chaussées · Main causes of deterioration · Investigation methods · Structural evaluation tests · Stages of structural assessment · Preparing for recalculation - Repair and Strengthening John Darby, Consulting Engineer · Repair of concrete structures · Metal structures · Masonry structures · Replacement of structures


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